[lennytheduck]

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Fox Exec #1: What's our most successful drama?
Fox Exec #2: House.
Fox Exec #1: Well, since we have nothing else to do, how do we make it more successful? If it already works, obviously we can make it better!
Fox Exec #2: What this world needs is more reality competition shows.
Fox Exec #1: Excellent! Let's infuse some reality competition elements into our most original and best-written show.
Fox Exec #2: Great work. This can only make the show's most hardcore fans love it even more! They won't be turned off in the least by such a lame gimmick.
Fox Exec #1: Great. We need a sassy female unknown with a smoking figure and some ethnic underling for House's new team.
Fox Exec #2: I wonder if Kumar is available. You know, he went to medical school. It was in that documentary he did about White Castle.
Fox Exec #1: Brilliant. I don't think he will be blown off the screen by a great thespian such as Omar Epps. He will definitely hold his own.
Fox Exec #2: Alright. Let's round out the competition with an old salt, a complete caricature of an over-competitive aspiring female doctor, and that annoying guy who plays scummy defense lawyers.
Fox Exec #1: You're 100% right. There's no need for original characters with depth and nuance.
Fox Exec #2: And I'm sure Hugh Laurie's contempt for all of this won't be evidenced at all through his performance!
Fox Exec #1: Brilliant!
Fox Exec #2: Brilliant!
Fox Exec #1: Oh, and make sure the writers don't make any tongue-in-cheek jokes about how cheesy a convention this is.
Fox Exec #2: Brilliant!

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I loved this episode. It's easily in my top 5 for House episodes (Three Stories #1 obv).

I will agree that Kumar is just too much though. Hypothetically he could be wayyyyy better than Foreman as an actor on that show and I would still think of him with Harold.

This is in contrast to Omar Epps who enters my mind as Foreman rather than that guy from Love & Basketball, etc.